Free. 7 p.m. You don’t want to miss this.
To prepare, I suggest you spend your next 14 minutes listening to her recent performance on NPR’s “Mountain Stage” by clicking here.
And here’s a charming little video, too.
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Tonight: Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers at McMenamins Old St. Francis School
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
October 2 in GO! Magazine
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
October. It’s October. Or should I say Rocktober? (No, I shouldn’t. I’m so tired of people saying Rocktober.)
Do you know what October means? It means September is over, and September was a ridiculously busy month for your pal the Frequency blog. October means that the Sisters Folk Festival, Portland’s MusicfestNW, and the Bend Roots Revival, plus a whole bunch more shows, are in the rearview mirror. It was fun, but I’m exhausted.
Still, there is music to be heard and enjoyed and written about this week:
-Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe is in Bend this weekend. They want you to shake yer thang, and they will not take no for an answer!
-Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers are going to provide a pretty amazing soundtrack for an evening at McMenamins Old St. Francis School.
-We ran two pages of photos from the Bend Roots Revival. Check them out here, and click here for my recaps of each day of the festival.
-The Bend Fall Festival’s music lineup is stacked this year! We’re talking BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Flowmotion, Shawn Mullins, Curtis Salgado and more. (Click here to read our story about the non-music aspects of the festival.)
-A local group called BAKESTARR helps young adults with Type 1 diabetes. They’re also holding a fundraiser Thursday at Silver Moon Brewing featuring the music of Jones Road and Sagebrush Rock.
-The Domino Room will host four good, young bands tonight: Adventure Galley, The Snag, Tree Dwellers and The Kali Regime.
-When your MC name is Knobody, it makes it difficult for journalists to write headlines that make sense. “Knobody rolls into Bend.” “The Underground welcomes Knobody.” Well, somebody is headlining a big show tonight, and it is Knobody. Everybody clear?
-I didn’t get a story on this into today’s GO! Magazine, but there was something in Tuesday’s Community Life section: Canadian Latin-jazz guitarist Jesse Cook will kick off the Redmond Community Concert Association’s annual series on Sunday. Learn more about the group and the series here.
As always, you should grab a copy of the newspaper to be able to read all these articles, plus all the other nifty stuff in GO! Magazine.
Cool bands coming to McMenamins
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
The McMenamins chain’s Great Northwest Music Tour has brought a bunch of great bands to Bend over the years, including Bombadil, Langhorne Slim, The Everybodyfields and the Avett Brothers. (Now that the Avetts are big stars playing big theaters, can I just say how much I regret skipping their free show inside Old St. Francis School’s tiny Father Luke’s Room only 18 months ago? Because I do.)
Add two more to the roster: Fast-rising alt-country(ish) acts Deer Tick and Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers are set to play our local McMenamins branch in September and October, respectively.
Deer Tick, in particular, seems to be a band on the verge of breaking out. Once a one-man band, the now-quartet is led by John Joseph McCauley III, a man who writes rustic folk tunes, cranks ‘em up and turns ‘em into rock songs, and sings through what Rolling Stone magazine calls a “warm Lucky Strike croak.” Also, one of the world’s most recognizable newsmen digs ‘em. (If you can’t see the video below, watch it here.)
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BriTunes! I totally get it.
Samantha Crain’s making a name for herself, too. The Oklahoma singer-songwriter is the latest find for the terrific North Carolina label Ramseur Records, and her band plays well-executed roots music. But it’s Crain’s vocals that get the most notice; strong, deep, and perfectly quivering, her voice is the kind of voice that can, on its own, catapult an artist into stardom. (See Case, Neko.)
Both acts have new albums out, both are touring a bunch this summer, and both have a significant publicity push right now. Deer Tick’s here on Sept. 23, and Crain on Oct. 7. It’ll be interesting to see whether either (or both) are a considerably bigger deal when they play Bend then they are today.
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